When news broke that some 7 million insurance hopefuls had signed up at Healthcare.gov by the March 31 deadline, President Barack Obama all but did Snoopy’s happy dance.

At a news conference the president questioned how anyone could now oppose the Affordable Care Act and all the good it is accomplishing.

Not to rain on President Obama’s parade, but there are many reasons to be concerned about the problems ObamaCare has wrought.

One reason the March 31 deadline was met is most likely due to the decision made by Target Corp. and others.

In January, the Los Angeles Times reported Target Corp. had became the latest major company to say it will stop offering health care coverage for part-time workers.

The Target decision followed similar announcements last year by Home Depot, Walgreens and Trader Joe’s Co. And no doubt, as the Times points out, there will be others.

The import of these decisions lies in the shifting of health insurance costs from businesses like Target on to the backs of taxpayers who will fund the subsidies provided to an untold number of these part-time workers.

We don’t challenge that the Affordable Care Act was aimed at doing great good. But we do continue to take exception to how that good is being accomplished and at what cost.

It seems that for every example of someone saving money under ObamaCare there is someone hit with an increase in rates, at times more than double what they had been paying.

Then there is the Affordable Care Act’s hypocrisy.

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has bragged that under the Affordable Care Act women will not pay disproportionately for their health care coverage.

What goes unsaid is that young people will pay disproportionately in order to subsidize the rates of older, sicker Americans.

How can it be fair to overcharge one group, but not another? We welcome Sen. Shaheen to explain away this conundrum.

Thankfully, the public is still skeptical of ObamaCare. As CNN recently reported, “Just about every national poll indicates that more Americans disapprove of the law than support the measure.”

And while it may be true, as CNN reports, that this has not led to support for repealing ObamaCare, we predict it will lead to the election of candidates with the will to do some serious repair work.

That repair work includes stopping the flow of the insured from private businesses onto the public dole. It means block-granting federal funds to the states instead of forcing them through state marketplace exchanges. As has been shown time after time, individual state legislatures better know the needs of their citizenry than does the Washington, D.C., bureaucracy.

We can predict with certainty the coming election season will peak voter interest in fixing what is wrong with the Affordable Care Act. The most important of which is making health care affordable — a promise President Obama seems to have stopped making.